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SAMUEL S. HEATH. 




REBECCA (PEARL) HEATH. 



SOME OF 



JOHN PEARL'S 



DESCENDANTS, 



. . BY 



ALICE HEATH (FAIRBANKS) DOW. 



PRINTED BY 

WILLIAM C. HEATH, 
DETROIT, MICH, 



METHODS OF RECKONING TIME. 

The English statute, which took effect in 1752, established 
January ist as the beginning of the year, and also cancelled the 
overplus of time accumulated by the reckoning under the Julian 
Calendar, which then amounted to 11 days, by making the 3d 
day of September, 1752, the 14th. 

According to the Gregorian Calendar, the year began on 
March 25th, Boston Almanacs made the change from March to 
January in 1687. The change appears in our vital records about 
1790. 

To avoid confusion in consequence of the change, the practice 
of double-dating became customary, that is, of naming the years 
in both styles, in giving the dates of events between January ist 
and March 25th; thus, Feb. 26, 1693-4, which means Feb. 26, 
1693, old style, and Feb. 26, 1694, new style. In the old style 
February was the 12th month, and in the new, the 2nd. This 
practice continued till the new style was adopted, in 1752, by the 
Act of the British Parliament. 

EXPLANATORY NOTES ON GENEALOGICAL TABLES. 

The families are all numbered consecutively by common 
figures placed at the head of each, and are referred to by their 
numbers. 

The names of sons and daughters who appear as the heads 
of families in the next generation are followed by their respective 
family numbers in parenthesis. 

Roman numerals are used after the names of ancestors to 
designate the generations in which they were bom. 

After the name and residence of the head of each family, 



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follows the line of ancestors, beginning- with the father or mother 
and running backward. The number in parenthesis before the 
name of the parent, is the family number in the preceding genera- 
tion. 

FAMILY RECORDS. 

Widow Alice Pearle was living in Beverly Park, Yorkshire, 
Eng., in iC66, when her son John was apprenticed to John 
Gurwood, of Beverly, in the same county. The old parchment 
apprentice-pap ?r is in the possession of John M. Pearl, West 
Boxford, Mass., and it reads as follows : 

Nov 24 1666 

Memorandum that I Covenanted and agreed upon between 
John Pearl son of Alice Pearle of Beverly pkes in the countye of 
yorke widow on the one pte And John Gurwood of Beverly in the 
same countye Miller, that whereas the said John Pearle hath 
served as an apprentice with Anthony Elvidge of Beverly in the 
Couuntye of yorke Miller deceased ; and for the expiring of his 
said Apprenticeship he the said John Pearle hath hyred himself 
unto the said John Gurwood for the space of Two yeares from 
the Eleventh day of November last past before the date of these 
psents Commonly called Martinmasse day And is covenanted and 
agreed upon between the said pties that hee the said John 
Gurwood shall give to the said John Pearle, meats, drinke and 
lodging and in me yard ( ?) that the said John Pearle is to find 
himselfe all manner of Apparrell dureing the said tearme of Two 
yeares, he the said John Gurwood shall give to the said John 
Pearle his servant the yearely wages of Thirty and five Shillings 
dureing the said tearme of Two yeares, in the manner and forme 
following that is to say Eight shillinges and nine pence upon the 
second day of ffebruary now next ensueing the date hereof and 
so Eight shillings and nine pence every quarter day succesively 



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and following another dureing the said Two yeares And lastly it 
is Covenanted and agreed upon between the said pties that hee 
the said John Pearle shall bee a true & faithfull and obedient ser- 
vant to the said John Garwood his master and also that the said 
John Gurwood shall to the best of his knowledge show instruct 
and teach him the said John Pearle his servant the art mistery 
scyence or occupation of a Miller the which he now useth and 
exerciseth In Witness whereof the pties abovesaid to this psent 
agreement have Interchangeably sett to their handes and scales 
the day and yeare above written 

his miarke 
JOHN (seal) PEARL 
Witnesses ' J. P. 

Michaell ffarley 

Chr: Smith 

Another old paper still in the family is a Power of Attorney 
to collect a debt due Widow Alice Pearl by Jane Jackson, wife of 
William Jackson, and dated May i, 1662, at Beverly Park, Eng. 

I. JOHN PEARL, of Bradford, Mass. 

FIRST AMERICAN ANCESTOR. 

He was born at Skidby, in said Beverly Park, about 1650; 
came to America before 1671 and pursued his calling as a miller 
first at Marblehead and then at Bradford near Boxford line. 

An old paper in the trunk (which was brought across the 
ocean with John) is in regard to a waterwheel and is dated Jan. 
31, 1671. /\nother relating to the same subject is dated 1683. 
Still another, which bears the date of 1699, grants him certain 
mill privileges. He was in Marblehead in 1685, when he 
acknowledged judgment in Salem Court in favor of Mr. Francis 
Wainwright and also his own father-in-law, Richard Holmes. 

The name of John Pearl's father is not known. In the famous 
Ola trunk is another indenture paper binding Nicholas Pearl of 



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Beverly Park to John Pearl of Skidbie^ England, for a term of 
seven years from Nov. 8, 1669. Who Nicholas and John are is 
not known. 

He maried Elizabeth, daughter of Richard and Alice Holmes, 
of Rowley, where she was born July 15, 1662. She died Mar. 
26, 1744, and it is presumed that he died about 1720. Richard 
Holmes' will, dated 1695, and also other papers of interest in 
regard to transactions between Richard Holmes and John Pearl, 
are in the trunk. 

CHILDREN. 

1 Alice, b. about 1683; was living in 1744; m. Jonathan 
Peabody of Boxford in 1710. He died Apr. 18, 1741. 
They had 9 children. 

2 Mary, b. 1685; d. Nov. 5, 1754, unmarried. 

3 John, b. Jan. 16, 1686-7; died young. 

4 Eleanor, b. about 1690; was living in 1744; m. Jan. 18, 
1715, John Stiles. They had 7 children. 

5 John, b. Jan. 4, 1692-3 ; was apprentice to Thomas 
Perley, 3rd, of Boxford. ,» ,^ 

Timothy, b. Feb. 23, 1694-5 ; m. Mary — soon after 1716 
UiA'kj J ^"*^ lived in Windham, Conn. They have many 

u ISio^QCt descendents. 

7 Jane, b. Oct. 9, 1698; was living in 1744; m, Thomas 

Messer, of Haverhill. 

8 Richard (2), b. May 20, 1702; d. Dec. 20, 1793. 



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SECOND GENERATION. 

2. RICHARD PEARL. 

W. Boxford, Mass. 
(l) Son of John i. 

Born May 20, 1702, in that part of Bradford which is now 
Groveland, and died Dec. 20, 1793, aged 91 years, in Boxford. 



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He lived in Andover for a while and removed to Boxford, and 
in 1737 bought the old Pearl homestead, which is now owned 
and occupied by Ruth (Pearl) Webster and John and Rebecca 
Pearl and Helen (Pearl) Cole, all children of George (15), 
Near his residence, on the stream which connects Mitchell's 
Pond with Parker River, he shortly erected a grist mill, which 
was the first ever built in the West Parish. This ancient mill 
was gone before 1824, and on the site John Pearl and James 
Carleton founded a saw and box mill about 1848. The site is 
now occupied by Hale's Mills. The original mill was removed 
to the homestead, and is now used as a barn by Mr. Webster, 

In the old trunk is a receipt, dated 1729, for money paid 
for a slave, by Richard. Also the deed of the old homestead 
and land. The deed is dated Mar. 6, and was recorded on 
Mar. 9, 1737. The deed states that Richard Pearl bought of 
Cornelius Brown land, house and barn. In giving the bound- 
ary, land previously bought by Richard Pearl is mentioned. A 
paper dated Mar. 3, 1738, gives Cornelius Brown the privilege 
of living in the nouse till May and to take 20 feet from the east 
end of the barn before June. The house is built of solid hewn 
oak timbers, and although so old is true and plumb in every 
place. One of the main timbers measures eighteen inches. 
It was a garrison house and between the inside and outside 
finish are bricks, larger than modern bricks, solidly laid in 
mortar. John, the father of Richard, probably lived in the 
house with Brown long before Richard bought it, as there is 
a family tradition that Richard was brought there in a "bread 
trough" when a little baby. There are two or three wooden 
latches with the ''latch string" in the house and the one on 
the south door is very largt. As old houses go one would 
judge from moulding and carving that it was a fine mansion 
in its day. Many men prominent in the Boxford history have 
lived and died beneath its ancient roof, and the descendants of 
Alice and her sons and grandsons are proud to say the sturdy 



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and heroic blood of Pearl runs in their .vgigs. He married 
Sarafc^i'n 1728. ^^^ i"^^ ^^^^'.^^^ ''/ ^^'iy^\T^'^jy,^ 

1 Abigail, b. — ; m. Mar. 7, 1754, Amos Spofford, and 

lived in Boxford. They had 9 children. 

2 Sarah, d. before 1787; m. Oct. 4, 1753, Abel Kimball, 

of Bradford. 

3 Hannah, d. late in 1789; m. Apr. 11, 1754. Stephen 

Runnels-"* (Reynolds). He died in Boxford June 23, 
1771. (See Reynolds Geneology.) He was the son 
of Stephen, who was the son of Samuel. 

4 John (3), bapt. Apr. 30, 1738 (or 39) ; d. Dec. 17, 1825, 

aged 86. 

5 Richard, bapt. Jan. 20, 1739-40; d. of smallpox. 

6 Phebe, bapt. Oct. 18, 1741 ; m. Jesse Merrill May 5, 

1763 ; lived in Boxford. 

7 Esther, bapt. Sept. 4, 1743; m. Thomas Spofford. 

8 Elizabeth, bapt. Aug. 18, 1745; d. Mar. 11, 1776; m. 

Feb. 9, 1764, Ebenezer Peabody, who d. Jan., 1829, 
aged 86. Resided in Boxford. 

9 Lucy, bapt. May 6, 1750; m. June 13, 1770, Phineas 

Kimball, of Bradford. 



THIRD GENERATION. 

3. JOHN PEARL. 

W. Boxford, Mass. 
(2) Richard ii, John i. 
Born Apr. 27, 1739; died Dec. 17, 1825, aged 86 years. He 
succeeded his father on the homestead and was prominent in 
the early wars of the Colonies, enlisting in Capt. Israel Her- 
rick's company, under Col. Jedediah Preble, in Mar., 1758. 
Under the attack of these troops, Louisburg (on July 26, 1758) 



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and the whole country from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to Nova 
Scotia surrendered. He was also in Shay's Rebellion, and was 
at Ticinduoga in Aug., I777- 

An old tomahawk which he brought home with him hangs 
to this day on a beam in the "fore room" of the old house. 

In a letter to his wife dated Ticonduoga, Oct. 12, 1776, he 
writes: "It has been very sickly in camp with camp-disorder, 
but the sick ones are getting better. We don't expect fighting 
here this fall for we are very strong, both by land and water ; 
have twenty-three sail off the line." Many of his letters are 
still preserved, among them very interesting ones from Cherry 
Valley. 

His old flint lock gun is still in the family. It was his 
faithful friend through many years,, and hangs with his powder 
horn and sword near the tomahawk. He was a small man — 
too small to look the hero he was — and was familiarly known 
as "the little old man." He was hale and hearty and active to 
the last, as so many of his descendants have been. At the 
age of 80 he walked to Concord, N. H. 

In the trunk is an enlistment paper bearing in a good 
clear hand his signature. It is in perfect condition, and reads 
as follows : 

I, John Pearl, do acknowledge to have voluntarily enlist 
myself as a private soldier to serve His Magesty, King George 
the second, in a comparfy of Foot to be raised for a general 
invasion of Canada commanded by Capt. Isreal Herrick. In 
a Regiment Jedidah Preble, Esq., as Colonel, 

As witness my hand this 30th day of March in the year of. 
our Lord 1758. 

JOHN PEARL. 

His war record is as follows: 

John Pearl, private; res. Boxford, Mass. Lexingtor^ 
Alarm, Capt. John Cushing's Co., Col. Samuel Johnson's Reg. 
Marched from Boxford, Apr. 19, 1775. Time of service, 4 days. 
Lexington Alarm Rolls. Mass. Archives, vol. 11, page 259. 



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John Pearl, corporal ; res. Boxford, Mass. Service in 1776. 
Capt. Richard Peabody's Co., Col. Edward Wigglesworth Reg. 
— Abstract of Rolls, Mass. Archives, vol. 21, page 182. 

John Pearl, corporal ; res. Boxford, Mass. Various service. 
Enlisted Oct. 4, 1777 in Capt. John Robinson's Co., (Major) 
Gage's Reg. Discharged Nov. 6, 1777; time of service i m. 5 d. 
— Muster and Pay Rolls. Mass. Archives, vol. 22, page 168. 

He was married by Rev. Mr. Eaton, in October, 1765, 
(intentions published on the 19th), to Eunice, daughter. of 
Nathan and Sarah (Goodrich) Kimball. She was born May 
14, 1747; died Apr. 27, 1830, aged 87 years. Eunice was a 
great granddaughter of John Kimball, who was an inhabitant 
of Boxford as early as 1669, his first child being born that 
year. He was made a freeman Mar. 22, 1689-90, and was 
styled "Corporal," and the frequency with which we meet the 
name "Corporal Kimball" upon the early records of Boxford 
proves he was prominent Ia his adopted town. (See History of 
Boxford, pages 51-53.) 

He was a descendant of Richard Kimball, of Rattlesden, 
'Eng., and Ursula, daughter of Henry and Martha Scott. They 
had eleven children and on the records of the Episcopal church 
m Rattlesden is the baptism in 1615 of a child of Richard and 
Ursula Kimball. Richard came to Watertown on the ship 
Elizabeth in 1634, aged about 39; was made a freeman in 1635; 
removed to Ipswich in 1637. His third child was Richard-, 
born about 1623 in Rattlesden, Eng. ; came to America with his 
father. He married Mary — , who d. Sept. 2, 1672. His son 
jchn^ married Sarah, and their child John* married Eliza- 
beth Chapman, and their son Nathan^ or Nathaniel was the 
father of Eunice**. (See Kimball family, by L. A. Morrison.) 

CHILDREN. 

1 Benjamin, b. Feb. 10, 1766; d. 1767. 

2 John (4), b. Nov. 23, 1768. 

3 Sarah, b. July 5, 1770; d. 1861 ; m. James Buswell. 




PEARL HOMESTEAD, 

Built Previous to 1737, 
Boxfofd, Mass. 



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4 Asseneth, b. 1771 ; d. 1852; m. Stephen Barker. Their 

son Nathan m. Mary J. Marble and had a large 
family. They lived on the Barker homestead in 
North Andover. Asseneth also had a daughter, 
Charlotte, and a son, J. Tyler, who has been very 
generous in his gifts to Boxford. 

5 Benjamin, b. Sept. 3, 1774; d. 1840. He married. 

6 Mehitable, b. Feb. 3, 1777; d. 1819; m. William Hag- 

gott. 

7 Elizabeth, b. Apr. 1779; d. 1785. 

8 Simeon (5), b. Sept. 21, 1781 ; d. May 18, 1864, aged 82. 

9 Eunice, b. Apr. i, 1785; d. July 10, 1825; m. John 

Merrill. 

10 Rebecca (6), b. Feb. 25, 1789; d. Mar. 5, 1868, aged 79. 

11 Peter (7), b. Aug. 19, 1791 ; d. July 29, 1874, aged 83. 



FOURTH GENERATION. 

4. JOHN PEARL. 

W. Boxford, Mass. 

(3) John iii, Richard ii, John i. 

Born Nov. 23, 1768. 

About the time of his marriage an addition to the home- 
stead was built for his use and which was occupied by his 
widow and child after his disappearance. He also had a large 
barn for his own use. 

He had quite a musical talent and sang for many years in 
the choir. One night just before Thanksgiving he moimted his 
horse and went to a neighbor's about a mile and a half distant 
to rehearse Thanksgiving music. The last that was ever seen 
of him was as he bade his friends good-bye, mounted his horse 
and started for heme through the woods. His horse was 
offered for sale in Boston but no trace of him was ever found. 



30 PEARL-HEATH RECORDS. 

althougii long search was made. It is thought that he was 
murdered by the Indians. 

He married May 24, 1794, Mehitable Hall. She never 
married again, and the sorrow and suspense which she endured 
made a great impression upon her son George. He was 
between 3 and 5 when his father went away. 

CHILDREN. 

1 Rufus, b. 1796; d. June 16, 1797. 

2 George (8), b. July 10, 1798; d. June 9, 1878. 



5. SIMEON PEARL. 

W. Boxford, Mass. 

(3) John iii, Richard ii, John i- 

Born Sept. 21, 1781 ; died May 18, 1864, aged 82 years. He 
was prominent in town affairs and was selectman for eleven 
years. 

Married (i) his cousin Betsey, daughter of Ebenezer Pea- 
body and Elizabeth Pearl, eighth child of Richard Pearl. She 
was baptized Aug. 18, 1745, and died Mar. ii, 1776, leaving 
one child. (See Number 2.) 

Married (2) Aug. i, 1778, Widow Mary Boynton, of An- 
dover. She died Oct. 1, 1863, aged 85. Simeon was born, 
lived and died beneath the roof of the Pearl homestead, and 
his favorite chair is still there. 

CHILDREN. 

1 Elizabeth, b. Apr. 24, 1816; d. Aug. 5, 1888. She mar. 

1843, Francis C. Whittier, of Boxford. 

2 Charles, who died young. 

3 John (9), b. June 26, 1822; d. June 7, 1890. 



PEARL-HEATH RECORDS. 11 



6. REBECCA (PEARL) HEATH. 

Bradford, Mass. 

(3) John iii, Richard ii. John i. 

Born Feb. 25, 1789; died Mar. 25, 1868, aged 79 years. 
Married Apr. 9, 1809, Samuel S. Heath. He was born June 
14, 1786; died June 18, 1866, aged 80 years. 

Mrs. Heath was a woman of noble character and gentle, 
womanly disposition. She was -very much beloved and res- 
pected by all who knew her. The following is taken from a 
local paper dated 1859: 

"Tuesday evening one of those rare events — a golden wed- 
ding — came off at the residence of Samuel S. Heath. Relatives 
and friends from far and near had been invited, and at an early 
hour the rooms were filled with persons of both sexes and all 
ages, from the matron and sire, whose locks were silvered for 
the tomb, to the prattling infant, whose journey of life had 
just begun. 

"Representatives of four different generations of the family 
were present, including seven of the ten children, all still liv- 
ing, with which the worthy couple have been blessed. Of the 
remaining three, one was in New York, another in Philadel- 
phia, and a third in Chicago, business and distance rendering 
it impossible for them to attend. A letter from a son-in-law, 
in Philadelphia, was read, expressing regret that business 
should prevent himself and wife from being present on the 
occasion, and tendering to the bride and bridegroom the hos- 
pitality of their home in the Quaker City, should they see fit 
to come that way in making their bridal tour, instead of fol- 
lowing the fashionable world on such an occasion, by taking 
a trip to Europe. He continues : 'We take great pleasure in 
extending to you our heartiest congratulations, and hope the 
event will be replete with unalloyed pleasure, both in its pres- 
ent enjoyment and in the thousand recollections of the past 
that will crowd upon you as you look back through a half 



12 PEARL-HEATH RECORDS. 

century of married life, and the three-score years and ten 
which a kind Providence has granted you. We all have our 
joys and sorrows and troubles, but let us hope that your path- 
way through life has been abundantly strewn with flowers, 
and few thorns; that you have few things to regret, and many 
to remember with feelings of pleasure and thankfulness to 
cheer and solace the remaining years allotted to you here, and 
lead you to hope for a blessed immortality hereafter.' 

"Of the witnesses of the ceremony fifty years ago, but three 
are now living, and the clergyman who officiated on that occa- 
sion, and also married her parents, the Rev. Mr. Eaton, has 
long since been 'gathered to his fathers.' Rev. Mr, Campbell 
officiated on the occasion of the re-union, offering some very 
pertinent and well-timed observations. The evening was 
spent in a very social and agreeable manner, and at a season- 
able hour the party retired, many of them leaving golden testi- 
monials of their good will and wishes for the worthy couple. 

"Mr. and Mrs. Heath have arrived at a ripe old age {y2> and 
70 respectively), but they are both apparently in the enjoy- 
ment of good health, and bid fair to live for years to come. 
Mr, Heath is an active, enterprising man, and has probably 
been in the shoe business more years than any other man in 
Essex county. When but eight years of age he worked at 
closing shoes, and at twelve he was engaged in making them, 
while for fifty-five years past he has been employed as a shoe 
manufacturer, nearly or quite all the time in Bradford. 

"In the month of December, 1812, about six months after 
the declaration of war between this country and Great Britain, 
Mr, Heath, in company with Mr. William Tenney, loaded 
three two-horse teams with shoes and started them for George- 
town, District of Columbia, to be sold for the use of the army. 
The teams could not make more than twenty miles a day, and 
consumed twenty-six days in the journey out. The shoes were 
disposed of and part of the purchase money paid down, which 



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was invested in flour and cigars, for a return freight. The 
cost of freight each way was nine cents per pound. The 
remainder of the purchase money ($1,500) was expended for 
one hundred barrels of flour, which was put on board a small 
vessel, hoping that it might be looked upon as a fishing vessel 
and thus escape the enemy's cruisers, and forwarded to New- 
buryport, where, fortunately for all concerned, it safely arrived. 
Seventy-five dollars freight was paid on the flour to that place, 
and twelve and a half cents per barrel from that place up the 
river in gondolas to Bradford. 

"When we institute a comparison between the time con- 
sumed in forwarding freight from this place to the District of 
Columbia fifty years ago and at the present time (1859), noth- 
ing more clearly demonstrates the immense strides in the 
advance of the arts and sciences. Where, fifty years ago, it 
required twenty-six days' time to convey freight five hundred 
miles, it can now be done in about as many hours." 

CHILDREN. 

1 Laura, b. Nov. 9, 1810; d. 1868. Married (i) May 

4, 1829, Charles K. Kelley, who was born Dec. 30, 
1808, and died Oct. 14, 1832. Married (2) Sept. 24, 
1840, David D. Shaw, who was born 1816; died be- 
fore 1853. 

CHILDREN. 

a Samuel Eustice Kelley, b. May 30, 1832; d. July 15, 1867. 
Mar. Jan. 18, 1855, Mary Thomas. Their only child, 
Emma, b. Oct. i, 1855— Haverhill; died in 1873. 

b William Eveleth Shaw, b. May 27,1841; d. Sept. 12, 1841. 

2 Mary Maria (10), b. Jan. 30, 1813; d. Sept. 23, 1897, 

aged 84. 

3 Samuel Agustus (11), b. Mar. 4, 1816. 

4 Aaron Parker (12), b. Jan. 23, 1818; d. May 29, 1899, 

aged 81. 

5 Sarah E. Parker (13), b. Sept. 22, 1821 ; d. June 2, 

1894, aged ^2. 



14 PEARL-HEATH RECORDS. 

6 Rebecca Pearl (14), b. June 18, 1823; d. Aug. 4, 1894, 

aged 71. 

7 John Pearl, b. Nov. 11, 1825; d. Apt. 6, 1896, in Chi- 

cago, aged 71. Married Annie M., daughter of 

Ephraim S. and Jane F. Harrington. She was born 

1839, ^^^ ^^^^^ Dec. 15, 1884. One child. 

a Annie Pearl, b. 1858; mar. Feb. 17, 1881, William Holden, 

son of William F. and Mary E. Davis. He was b. in 

1854 and d. Aug. 3, 1900. Residence, Boston. 

8 George E., b. Jan. 8. 1828; d. Sept. 12, 1863, from the 

effects of a wound received at the battle of Gettys- 
burg. Married in 1852, Almira Pease, and had one 
child, Susie Almira. 

9 Edward Everett, b. Sept. 3, 1829; mar. Frances A. 

Russell. Resides in California. 

10 Charles Kingsley, b. Oct. 10, 1833; d. June 8, 1878, in 

Portland, Me. Married Feb. 25, 1858, Ada M. Heath. 
She was born in 1841 in Philadelphia, and died June 
21, 1879, ii^ Boston. From a local paper is the fol- 
lowing: "Mr. Charles K. Heath was well known in 
this vicinity (Bradford), though not a resident here 
for several years. He was a genial, kind hearted 
man, and the news of his death will call to the 
remembrance of many now in middle life, the sports 
and adventures of bovhood." 



7. PETER PEARL. 



W. Boxford, Mass. 



iS) John iii., Richard ii.. John i. 
Born Aug. 19, 1791 ; died July 29, 1874, aged 83 years. 
In the spring of 1821 he purchased the farm in Boxford where 
his daughters Eunice and Hattie still reside. His long and 



PEARL-HEATH RECORDS. 15 

useful life was passed in his native town and he occupied many- 
public offices. 

He married in 1813 Rebecca SpofTord, daughter of Samuel 
and Deborah (Robinson) Spofford. She was born Dec. 9, 
1794, and died Mar. 25, 1877, aged S^ year^. (See Spofiford 
Geneology.) 

CHILDREN. 

1 John R., b. Sept. 7, 1813; d. Oct. 9, 1869; mar. Harriett 

Spofford. She died Apr. i, 1887. Six children. 

2 Mary W., b. July 10, 181 5; d. Mar. 25, 1888; mar. May 

2, 1844, Tyrel Gilmore. Res. Dedham, Me. Five 
sons and one daughter. 

3 Horatio, b. Aug. 2, 1819; mar. Sept. 11, 1849, Theresa 

Hall. Res., Bradford, Mass. 

4 Francis H., b. July 27, 1821 ; d. Sept. 2, 1850, in San 

Francisco, unmarried. 

5 Peter E., b. Aug. 29, 1825; d. Dec. 29, 1879; mar. Nov. 

25, 1858, Fidelia J. Day, and resided in Bradford. 

6 Rebecca Eunice, b. July 15, 1827. 

7 Charles, b. Jan. 26, 1821 ; d. Mar. 23, 1859, in Boxford; 

mar. Charlotte A. Tyler. 

8 Samuel I., b. Dec. 17, 1832; mar. Nov. i, 1866, Eliza- 

beth Irving, and resides in Chelsea, Mass. 

9 Harriett A., b. Nov. 14, 1836. 



FIFTH GENERATION. 

8. GEORGE PEARL. 

W. Boxford, Mass. 

(4) John iv, John iii, Richard ii, John i. 
Born July 10 ,1798; died June 9, 1878. 

He was the representative — the last one under the old law 
-to the General Court of Massachusetts in 1856 and 1857. He 



16 PEARL-HEATH RECORDS. 

was town clerk and selectman for several years and captain 
of the standing militia. He resided in the "New Part" of the 
homestead, and there his seven children were born. 

Married Nov. lo, 1825, Abigail Tyler, daughter of John 
and Ruth (Eastman) Kimball. Abigail was born July 13, 
1801 ; died June 17, 1887. She was a descendant in the seventh 
generation of Corporal John Kimball; was a talented woman 
and a graduate of Bradford Academy. An elaborate drawing, 
very neatly done, predicting an eclipse, is in the old house. 

GHMiDREN. 

1 George Frederick, b. Aug. 2, 1826 ; d, Apr. 6, 1900 ; mar. 

(i) Maria Spofford; mar. (2) Hannah M. Molton. 
They had three children. 

2 Almira M., b. Oct. 12, 1828; d. Sept. 29, 1878; mar. 

Mathew Poor, and lived in North Andover. No 
children. 

3 Helen M., b. Jan. 3, 1833; ^^^- Joseph P. Cole, of 

Boxford. No children. Mr. Cole is dead and she 
lives with her brother and sister in her father's home. 

4 Ruth Mehitable (15), b. Sept. 21, 1836. 

5 Rebecca Kimball, b. July 9, 1839. Lives in her father's 

home. 

6 John (16), b. Jan. 5, 1842. 

7 Sarah, b. Jan. 5, 1842 ; mar. Irving E. V»'hite Apr. 20, 

1861. They had 7 children and live in Wakefield: 
Geo. E., Louise G., Herbert 1., Marion P., Clara L, 
Sarah E., Edward C. Clara L m. Wm. R. Haskell; 
Sarah E. m. Frederick H. Wilmarth 



9. JOHN PEARL. 

W. Boxford, Mass. 
(5) Simeon iv, John iii, Richard ii, John i. 
Born June 26, 1822; died June 9, 1890; married Jane Day. 




PEARL HOMESTEAD, 

View from Pearl Lane, J 737, 

Boxford, Mass. 



PEARL-HEATH RECORDS. 17 

In 1864 they went to live with Mr. Day in his old age and 
inherited the Day place. 

OHIELDKEN. : 

1 Ella, b. July 24, 1850; mar. Charles A. Andrews. 

CHILDREN. 

a John Albion Andrews, 
b Adelaide Pearl Andrews, 
c Frank Alfred Andrews, 
d Isaac W. Andrews. 

2 John Myron (17), b. Feb. 12, 1852. 

3 Mary Adelaide, b. Apr. 25, 1854. 

4 Frank. 

5 Seymour Manson. 



10. MARY M. (HEATH) ADAMS. 
Boston, Mass. 

(6) Rebecca (Pearl) Heath iv, John Pearl iii, Richard ii, John i. 

Born Jan. 30, 1813, in Bradford, and died Sept. 23, 1897, at 
the ripe old age of 84, while on a visit at the old homestead in 
Boxford. She was a great worker in the cause of temperance 
and was a very charitable woman. No one ever asked help of 
her in vain or ever left her empty handed. She was a small, 
slender woman and active to the last, with every faculty as 
keen as ever. She did embroidery and played some on the 
piano, and was proud to prove that she was "80 years young" 
by dancing a step or two now and then. 

She married, Sept. 30, 1841, William, son of William 
Adams, of West Cambridge, and Sallie Goodhue, of Salem, 
Mass. He was born July 24, 1813, and died Feb. 15, 1883. 

CHILDREN. 

I Sarah M., b. Mar. 21, 1843, in Bradford; d. Jan. 25, 
1 89 1, in Boston. 
Married (i) Nov., 1861, Josiah L., son of John and Eliza 



18 PEARL-HEATH RECORDS. 

Wescott. He was b. 1836 in Penobscott, Me. Re- 
cruiting officer. 

Married (2) Mar. 16, 1867, S. Clesson, son of Hosea and 
Grace Pratt. He was b. in 1831 in Marshall, N. Y. 
Physician. 

Married (3) June 4. 1886, M. Allan, son of M. A. and 
Indiana Parsons. He was b. in Gloucester, M'ass., in 
1841. Real estate agent. No children. 

2 William Pliggins, b. Aug. 18, 1845. 

3 James Henry Thatcher, b. Jan. 7, 1848. 

4 Frank Willis, b. July 23, 1855. He is a graduate of 

Harvard College and Law School. Married Oct. 5, 
1885, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Almon S. Morse. 
She was b. July 23, 1864; d. Mar. 30, 1887, leaving 
a child who only lived a few days. 

II. SAMUEL A. HEATH. 

Chicago, 111. 

(6) Rebecca (Pearl) Heath iv, John Pearl iii, Richard ii, John i. 

Born Mar. 4, 1816, in Bradford, Mass. 

Married (i) Jan. 3, 1837, Mary Adeline, daughter of Rev. 
J. C. and E. A. Koger, of Walterboro, S. Car. She died Oct. 
26, 1849, i'"' Bradford, leaving three little children, who were 
tenderly cared for by her sister, Eliza A. Koger, a little sketch 
of whom appears below. 

Married (2) July 17, 1850, Harriett Newell, daughter of 
Rev. Hosea N. and Sarah V. Ball, of Southfield, N. Y. She 
was born Jan. 17, 1824 or 27, and died Feb. 11, 1862, in South- 
field. Two children. 

Married (3) July, 1865, Grace Eliza, daughter of A. D. and 
G. E. Brown, of Dover, N. H. She was born Jan. 17, 1843. 

CHILDREOSr (FIRST WIFE). 

I James Koger, h. Jan. 18. 1838, at Walterboro, S. C. ; 
d. Aug. 2, 1838 or 9, at Bradford, Mass. 



PEARL-HEATH RECORDS. 19 



2 Mary Francis Townsend (i8), b. Dec. 15, 1841, at 

Bradford, Mass. ; d. Aug. 9, 1877. 

3 Alice Georgette, b. Sept. 24, 1844, at Bradford; mar. 

Dec. 14, 1869, Robert Grant Barnwell, of Phila- 
delphia. He was b. June 19, 1842. They reside in 
Washington, D. C. 

4 Effie Eliza, b. July 5, 1849, at Bradford; d. Dec. 25, 

1855, at Walterboro. 

SECOND WIPE. 

5 George Lindley, b. May 5, 185 1, at New Haven, Conn. ; 

mar. June 17, 1880, Hattie Wilcox, of Syracuse, N. 
Y. She was b. Feb. 18, 1863. They reside in Chi- 
cago. One child, Grate, b. Feb. 18, 1881 ; d. Sept., 
1882. 

6 Ida Norton, b. Mar. 22, 1853, at New Haven; d. Mar. 

2^, 1889, in New York; mar. July i, 1876, James 
Custick. Child b. Sept. 11, 1878; d. Aug., 1879. 
The following obituary of Miss Koger was taken from a 
local paper at the time of her death. She died at the home 
of her niece, Mrs. Barnwell (7), although she had made her 
home for many years with her grandniece, Mrs. Seigling, (18) in 
Charleston : 

"The death of Miss Eliza A. Koger, at Washington, D. C, 
on the 28th of Jan., 1896, was a great loss in her home and 
social circle of her friends and relatives. She was born Aug. 
25, 1825, and is the last direct descendant of a long line of 
notable ancestry — among them preachers and statesmen whose 
lives adorned the respective stations to which, in the provi- 
dence of God, they were assigned. Her father was a Methodist 
preacher, and lived in the beginning of the present century. 
He left, at his death, a wife and five helpless children. But 
the wife was a woman of rare powers, of unusual energy of 
character, and above all, distinguished for her womanly 



20 PEARL-HEATH RECORDS. 

virtues. Thus she was fitted for the task misfortune assigned 
her, and being of the heroic mould, the battle of maintaining 
and educating her children was undertaken and successfully 
finished. She raised them to manhood and womanhood, and 
several of them preceded her to the Heavenly land. 

Her eldest daughter, Mary Adeline, married Samuel A. 
Heath, of Bradford, Mass., and three children were born to 
them. These little children were soon left motherless and 
were tenderly cared for by their mother's only sister, Eliza, 
in North Carolina, and the little orphans found in this sweet 
woman a second mother. The battle of life was bravely 
fought for them and her aged mother by this heroic girl, nor 
did she omit to train their young feet in the paths of peace 
and righteousness. 

That she might do all this she broke her engagement and 
sacrificed her own anticipated joy and happiness with a home 
and husband. 

The eldest of these nieces, Mary Francis (i8), married Col. 
Robert Campbell, distinguished for family prestige in the 
social world, and for culture as a lawyer. Col. Campbell and 
his wife died within a short time of each other, leaving three 
small children to the loving care of their great-aunt, Eliza. 
Again she became the mother, guardian and friend of a second 
generation of orphans, and for the second time, as nobly as the 
fist, did she fulfill the duties of rearing, educating and main- 
taining. At last she saw the fruits of her labors. All those 
for whom she had borne so much grew to prosperous man- 
hood and womanhood, and, her work done, she bowed her 
head and died. 

I need add no more than was beautifully said of another, 
'She hath done what she could.' She has winged her way to 
Heaven and is safe in the arms of Jesus. Friends will ever 
cherish the memory of her earthly ministry, and Heaven's 
arches ring her welcome home." 



PEARL-HEATH RECORDS. 21 



12. AARON PARKER HEATH, 

Nashua, N. H. 

(6) Rebecca (Pearl) Heath iv, John Pearl iii, Richard ii, John i. 

Born Jan. 23, 1818, at Bradford, Mass. ; died May 29, 1899, 
aged 81 years. 

He was a man of the most gentle, loving disposition; a 
devoted husband and father, and a devout Christian. Long 
to be remembered are the evening prayers at his home and 
the "blessing" asked at each meal. 

He had not been in the best of health for the last year of 
his life but was not forced to take his bed until the 27th. He 
bore his ill-health with great patience and never murmured or 
complained. 

He came to Nashua in 1849, and has since made his home 
in that city and has always resided on the same street. For 
a number of years he was engaged in the shoe trade, and 
later entered the employ of the Nashua Iron & Steel Co., and 
remained with that firm over a score of years, having charge 
of one department for many years. About twelve years ago 
he retired. He was a member of the First Congregational 
church, a man of the strictest integrity and was respected by 
all who knew him. 

Married (i) Sept. 7, 1842, Elizabeth S., daughter of John 
and Dorcas Gage. She was born at Orford, N. H., Apr. 3, 
1821 ; died Apr. 17, 1862. 

Married (2) May 6, 1863, Anstriss Wilson, daughter of Jacob 
and Margaret (Emerson) Plummer. She was born at Nashua, 
July 17, 1832. Anstriss Heath's mother was Margaret Emerson, 
a descendant in the sixth generation of Michael Emerson, father 
of Hannah Emerson, of Indian fame, who married Thomas 
Duston, of Haverhill, Mass. The story is: On the 15th of 
March, 1697, the Indians made an attack on their house. Mr. 
Duston mounted his horse, and placing himself with his trusty 
gun between his seven children and the savages, retreated to 



22 PEARL-HEATH RECORDS. 

a place of safety. Mrs. Duston and her nurse, Mary Neff, 
were taken prisoners, her young child slain and they were 
carried to Pennacook, now Concord, N. H. On the 30th of 
March, while the twelve savages slept, Mrs. Duston, Mary 
Neff, and Samuel Leonardson killed ten of the Indians, took 
their scalps and returned to her home. She had 13 children. 
A monument has been erected to her memory in Haverhill, 
Mass. 

CHILiDREN. 

1 Emma Elizabeth, b. Apr. 25, 1844; d. July 10, 1855, 

while visiting an aunt in New York City. 

2 Franklin Gage, b. Dec. 27, 1846; d. July 5, 1847, in 

Bradford. 

3 Franklin Gage, 2nd, b. Aug. 7, 1848. 

4 Lewis Frederick, b. Oct. 30, 1850; d. Feb. 17, 1867. 

5 Emma Harriett, b. Sept. 27, 1858; d. July 26, 1862. 

6 Elbridge Plummer, b. Nov. 21, 1864; mar. June 2, 1893, 

Bertha Letitia, daughter of Horatio and Jane 
(Mudgett) Robinson. She was b. Nov. 26, 1864 
They reside in Nashua and have one child, 
a Robinson Parker, b. Dec. 20, 1897. 



13 SARAH E. P. (HEATH) FAIRBANKS, 

Boston, Mass. 

(6) Rebecca (Pearl) Heatli iv, John Pearl iii, Richard ii, John i. 

Born Sept. 22, 1821, in Bradford; died June 2, 1894, in 
Boston, aged J2 years. 

She was a rare woman, one on whom the burden of years 
rested lightly and whose heart had kept its youth. Genial, 
cheerful and of an attractive manner, it was a pleasure to be 
in her society. Her trust in her Heavenly Father was beauti- 
ful and never faltered. His leading was always right, although 

L.cFC. 



PEARL=HEATH RECORDS. 23 

sometimes the way was dark and she could not see the end. 
I have seen her, when the clouds seemed to shut her in, look 
up, with the tears still glistening in her eyes, and say with a 
sweet, serene voice and a bright smile, "What is the use of 
worrying? Our Heavenly Father knows best and it will come 
out all right in the end." 

Her long life w^as one of devotion to husband, children and 
grandchildren. She was a graduate of Bradford Academy and 
was a very fine scholar. 

Married (i) Nov., 1842, Oliver B. Skelton, son of Dr. Ben- 
jamin and Sr;^m7r~R . Skelton, of Lowell. He was born in Pel- 
ham, N. H., Apr. 2, 1822; died May 23, 1850, in New York 
City. One child. 

Married (2) May 15, 1856, Lorenzo Sayles Fairbanks, son 
of Joel and Abigail (Tufts) Fairbanks. He was born Mar. 16, 
1825, in Pepperell, Mass., and died May 22, 1897, in Boston. 
He was a descendant in the eighth generation of Jonathan 
Fairbanke, who came to Boston from Sowerby, in the West 
Riding of Yorkshire, England, in 1633, and in 1636 settled in 
Dedham, and built there the noted "Old Fairbanks House," 
which is still standing. On his maternal side he is a descendant 
of Peter Tufts, of Charleston, and also of the Sayles family, of 
Rhode Island. His parents removed in the year of his birth to 
New Boston, N. H., and there he was reared and received his 
early education. He was ambitious to obtain a college training, 
and by virtue of hard work he accomplished his desire. He left 
his farm life and began his preparati^ course at Hancock Acad- 
emy and finished it at Black River Academy, Ludlow, Vt. He 
passed an examination in the entire curriculum of the freshman 
year and was admitted, without conditions, to the sophomore 
class. He was graduated with honors at Dartmouth College in 
the class of 1852, having paid all his expenses from the beginning 
of his preparatory course. 

He studied law in New York City and was admitted to 



24 PEARL-HEATH RECORDS. 



the bar in 1853. He prepared and published a treatise on 
book-keeping. Subsequently he published in New York a 
business arithmetic. In 1874 he came to Boston and resumed 
the practice of his profession, which he continued up to the 
time of his decease. He was a most able lawyer, and his pleas 
were strong, forcible and eloquent. In 1877 he published a 
small book on "The Marriage and Divorce Laws of Massa- 
chusetts," which had a large local sale, and a revised edition 
was issued in 1882. For the last five years of his life he was 
engaged in compiling the genealogy of the "Fairbanks Family 
in America," which will be a lasting monument to his memory. 
It is an octavo volume of nearly one thousand pages, and 
issued since his death, which was very sudden. Mr. Fairbanks 
was a man highly esteemed and respected by all who knew 
him; a man of fine abilities, with a pleasing manner, a strong 
personality, kind and genial, making many friends wherever 
he went. He possessed a splendid physique and perfect health 
He was a model husband and father in every sense of the word, 
and his deep love for home and family is beautifully expressed 
in letters which are treasured by his children as a precious 
inheritance. See "Fairbanks Family in America," page 518. 

CHILD, FIRST HUSBAND. 

1 Edward Oliver Skelton, b. Feb. 14, 1845, in Bradford; 

rnar, May ^10, 1866, Henrietta Boody, daughter of 
Samu^S. and Sarah Thorpe. She was born in 
Portland, Me., May 4, 1847. No children. 

CHILDREN, SECOND HUSBAND. 

2 Annie B., b. Jan. 16, 1858, in Davenport, la. ; d. Nov. 

15, 1863, in Bradford. A child of much promise. 

3 Alice Heath (19), b. July 11, 1861, in Philadelphia. 

4 Clara Elizabeth, b. Sept. 10, 1864, in New Boston, 

N. H. 




HEATH HOMESTEAD, 
Bradford, Mass. 



PEARL-HEATH RECORDS. 25 



14. REBECCA P. (HEATH) HEATH, 

Chicago, 111. 

(6) Rebecca (Pearl) Heath iv, John Pearl iii, Richard ii, John i. 

Born June 18, 1823, in Bradford, Mass. ; died Aug. 4, 1894, 
in Chicago, aged 71. She was a graduate of Bradford 
Academy. 

Married Oct. 2, 1843, Enos, fifth child of Enos and Betsey 
(Sargent) Heath, of Amesbury, Mass. He was born June 8, 
1814, in Merrimac, and died July 2, 1890, in Detroit, while 
visiting his son. Mr. Heath came to Chicago from Bradford, 
Mass., in 1857. He was one of the first to attempt to raise 
brick buildings, being connected in that business with Mr. S. 
Abbott. He went to Pike's Peak, but soon returned a wiser 
but not a richer man. He had charge of the first Pullman 
sleeping car on the Chicago & Alton R. R. in i860. 

CHILDREN. 

1 Charles G. (20), b. Apr. 23, 1845. 

2 Le Roy S., b. Aug. 28, 1846; married (i) Nov., 1872, 

at detroit, Emma Mitchell, who was b. at Two 
Creek, Wis., in 1852, and d. Sept. 24, 1886, in 
Chicago. 

Married (2) Feb. 4, 1888, Ella Mitchell, who was 
b. in 1857. They were daughters of Charles and 
Sarah Mitchell. Mr. Heath was for several years 
an overseer in a shoe factory and is now a con- 
ductor. 

OHII^D, 

a Mabel Pearl, b. Dec. 29, 1879 (or 80). 

3 Eugene Frank, b. June 28, 1849; d. Mar., 1873. 

4 Enos Frederick (21), b. Feb. 28, 1851. 

5 William C. (22), b. Nov. 7, 1854. 

6 Walter S. (23), b. June 16, 1863. 



26 PEARL-HEATH RECORDS. 

SIXTH GENERATION. 

15. RUTH M. (PEARL) WEBSTER, 

W. Boxford, Mass. 

(8) George v, John iv. John iii, Richard ii, John i. 

Born Sept. 21, 1836; mar. April 19, i860, James H. Web- 
ster. They lived in the old homestead with Simeon a short 
time before his death and then bought the place of his son 
John. Mr. Webster was born in Gilford, N. H. 

CHILDREN. 

I Grace Pearl, b. Jan. 21. 1861 ; mar. June 21, 1882, 

Nathan Foster. They live in Andover. 

a Reatta P., b. Aug. 13, 1883. 

b Charles H.. b. Dec. i, 1884. 

c Ernest W., b. July 7, 1886. 

d Frank N., b. April 14, 1888; d. Sept. 11, 1888. 

e Ruth B., b. Aug. 30, 1889. 

f Mary C, b. Apr. 19. 1891. 

g Guy E., b. Dec. 5, 1893. 

h Sarah C., b. Feb. 18, 1894: d. Feb. 18, 1896. 

i Grace H., b. June 28, 1896: d. Aug. 14, 1896. 

j Ralph S., b- Sept. 24, 1897. 

k George L., b. Feb. 11, 1899: d. July 18, 1900. 

2. George Pearl, b. Jan. 9, 1877. He enlisted Apr. 28, 

1898 for 2 years, under Capt. William C. Dow, Col. 

Pew's Rcgitnent, Maj. E. H. Eldridge (Co. F., 8th 

Reg., 3rd Bat.). He was in Cuba. He is quite a 

talented young man. 



16. JOHN PEARL, 

W. Boxford, Mass. 
(8) George v, John iv, John iii, Richard ii, John i. 
Born Jan. 5, 1842 ; married Feb. 14, 1864, Charlotte A. 



PEARL-HEATH RECORDS. 27 

Kimball, of N. Andover. He lives in the "new part" of the old 
homestead with two sisters. 

CHILDRE3N. 

1 George Kimball, b. Mar. 20, 1865 ; d. 1869. 

2 Mabel L., b. Sept. 18, 1871 ; mar, June 7, 1894, Arthur 

B. Lewis. 

CKLILDRBN. 

a Bernise Pearl, b. Feb. 2, 1895. 

b Charles Merton, b. Nov. 18, 1896. 

c John Kimball, b. Oct. 24, 1898. 

d Edna, b. Oct. 11, 1899; d. Mar. 25, 1900. 

3 John Kimball, b. June 11, 1875; d. Aug. 14, 1875, 



17. JOHN MYRON PEARL, 

W. Boxford, Mass. 

(9) John V, Sirt'con iv, John iii, Richard ii, John i. 

Born Feb. 12, 1852; married Clara L. Gale. He resides on 
the Day place on the shore of Mitchell's Pond, which his father 
inherited. 

CHILDREN. 

1 George Herbert, b. Sept. 20, 1881. 

2 John Howard, b. Jan, 22, 1883. 

3 Frank Willard, b. Jan. 4, 1885. 

4 Ruth Evelin, b. Sept. 20, 1887. 

5 Myron E., b. Sept. 20, 1889. 

6 Simeon Sydney, b. July 17, 1891, 

7 Sybil, b. Mar. 4, 1893. 

8 Seymour Manson, b. Apr. 19, 1894. 

9 Helen, b. July 23, 1895. 

10 Rosamond, b. July 21, 1898. 

11 Raymond, b. July 21, 1898. 



28 PEARL-HEATH RECORDS. 



i8. M. FRANCIS T. (HEATH) CAMPBELL. 

Walterboro, S. Car. 
(ii) S. A. Heath v, Rebecca (Pearl) Heath iv, John Pearl iii, Ricn- 
ard ii. John i. 

Born Dec. 15, 1841, in Bradford, Mass.; died Aug. 9, 1877, 

in Philadelphia, Pa. 

Married Nov. 21, 186,1, Col. Robert Campbell, son of Ann 
L. and Archibald McC. Campbell, of Scotland. He was born 
Aug. 9, 1839, and died Jan. 26, 1876, in South Carolina. 

CHILDREN, BORN IN WALTERBORO. 

1 Effie Oswald, b. Dec. 26, 1862; mar. Jan. 17, 1884, 

Gen. Rudolph Seigling, son of Henry and Mary 
Scigling. He was b. Dec. 3, 1840; d. Mar. 14, 1894. 
Resided in Charleston, S. Car. Two children : 

a Effie Campbell, b. Mar. 5, 1885; d. Dec 28, 1896. 

b Rudolph Campbell, b. Apr. 13, 1887. 

2 Robert, b. Apr. 30, 1865 ; mar. Dec. 3, 1891, Catherine, 

daughter of Moses and Cecilia Lopez. She was b. 
Oct. 18, 1862. 

CHILDREN. 

a Robert, b. Sept. 18, 1892, at Charleston. 

3 William Coulliett, b. June 22, 1867; mar. Dec. 3, 1889, 

Matilda Waite McCulloch. 

CHILDREN, BORN AT BEAUFORT, S. C. 

a Mattie Oswald, b. Dec. 16, 1890. 

b William L., b. Nov. 14, 1892. 

c Caroline McKay, b. Nov. 14, 1892. 



19. ALICE H. (FAIRBANKS) DOW. 

Braintree, Mass. 
(13) Sarah E. P. (Heath) Fairbanks v, Rebecca (Pearl) Heath iv, 
John iii, Richard ii, John i. 

Born July 11, 1861, in Philadelphia; married Dec. 14, 1880, 



PEARL-HEATH RECORDS. 2^ 

Willard Elbridge, son of Abel and Rhoda A, (Plummer) Dow. 
He was born Oct. 6, 1856, in the old Morrison-Dow homestead, 
in Windham, N. H., he being the fourth generation born there. 
He is a descendant in the eighth generation of Thomas Dow, 
of Newbery, and later of Haverhill, Mass., who was born in 
Runham, Eng. On his paternal grandmother's side he is a 
descendant in the seventh generation of John Morrison, who 
died in Derry, N. H., in iS'36, at the reputed age of 108 years. 
He was born in Scotland,and was descended from the son of 
an ancient King of Norway, and the Hereditary Judges of the 
island of Lewis, the home of the clan. See "History of Wind- 
am, N. H. ;" also "History of the Morrison Family," by L. A. 
Morrison. On his mother's side he is a descendant in the ninth 
.generation of Anthony Morse, of Newbury, Mass., who was 
born in England in 1606, of Norman aticestry. 

Mr. Dow' is the inventor, pattentee and manufacturer of 
several valuable electrical instruments and appliances. 

OHILDRBN, BORN IN WINDHAM. 

1 Alice Rebecca, b. Dec. 8, 1881. 

2 Alva Morrison, b. Sept. 8, 1883. 

3 Clarence Willard, b. Nov. 5, 1887. 



20. . CHARLES G. HEATH. 

Chicago, 111. 
(14) Rebecca P. (Heath) Heath v, Rebecca (Pearl) Heath iv, John 
Pearl iii, Richard ii, John i. 

. Born Apr. 23, 1845, ^t Bradford, Mass. Christened Caro- 
^^e George Jason, and in 1859 changed his name as above. 
He enlisted October 6, 1861, in 19th Reg., Ills. Vol. Inf., and 
was honorably discharged Oct. 7, 1864, at Atlanta, Ga. He 
writes : "My regiment was sworn into the U. S. service June 
17, 1861. At that time they would not allow me to enlist, as I 



30 PEARL-HEATH RECORDS. 



was too young. During the preceding April I had made an un- 
successful attempt to join the Ellsworth Zouaves. The regi- 
ment did some good work in Cairo, 111., when, owing to an ac- 
cident on the railroad near Cincinnati, they went into camp. 
More joined them there from Chicago, and I was among the 
number. I enlisted as a drummer boy, but was appointed 
Colonel's Orderly. I then had a horse, which was more dan- 
gerous than a drum, and I was out more with the regiment 
than a drummer boy would have been." He was assistant post- 
master in the Fourteenth Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, 
for live months. He is a member of U. S. Grant Post 28, G. A. 
R. He is employed in the Chicago postoffice. 

Married, May 8, 1874, Arabella Cordelia, daughter of Rus- 
sel M. and — (Coffin) Annis. She was born Jan. 21 ,1853, at Two 
Rivers, Wis. 

CHILD 

I Susan Pearl, b. Mar. 12, 1884. 



21 ENOS F. HEATH. 

Chicago, 111. 

(14) Rebecca P. (Heath) Heath v. Rebecca (Pearl) Heath iv, John 
Pearl iii, Richard ii, John i. 

Born Feb. 28, 1851, in Bradford; married Dec. 12, 1874, 
Susan E., daughter of George and Martha (Lester) Arm- 
strong, of Odell. 

CHILDREN. 

1 Emma Alwilda, b. Sept. 16, 1875; mar. Dec. 25, 1895, 

Judson C. Davis. 

2 Ella Augusta, b. June 8, 1877; married Sept. 20th, 1900, 

to John F. Copeland. 

3 ClintonLeroy, b. Jan. 17, 1879. 

4 Carrie Lauretta, b. Dec. 23, 1880. 



PEARL=HEATH RECORDS. 31 

5 Sarah Edith, b. Apr. 26, 1883 ; d. Dec. 24, 1884.. 

6 Bessie May, b. Mar. 25, iJ 

7 Lester Fred, b. Apr. 26, i( 

8 Francis Lucelle, Jan. 8, 1895. 



22. WILLIAM C. HEATH. 

Detroit, Mich. 

(14) Rebecca P. (Heath) Heath v, Rebecca (Pearl) Heath iv, John 
Pearl iii, Richard ii, John i. 

Born Nov. 7, 1855, in Bradford, Mass. He showed his 
patriotism at the very early age of 9 by running away from 
home to join the army. His time of service to his country was, 
however, of short duration, owing to a telegram from his 
anxious mother. He was of a roving nature as a boy, and 
during his i6th year traveled through the eastern states with 
an Englishman who had taken quite a fancy to the youth, whom 
he met in Chicago. After eight months of travel he longed for 
home, and when he arrived he found his home gone and Chi- 
cago in ruins, and his parents living, for the time being, in 
Niles, Mich. In a letter he says: "I can remember now what 
a grand, yet mournful sight it was. I walked through the 
ruins as far as the court house, whose bare walls stood out 
clear and dismal, and the blackened ruins seemed to tell of 
the terrible ordeal through which they had passed. Such a 
beautiful night as it was, with a dark blue sky, the stars shin- 
ing like electric lights in the heaveps, and the moon rising 
clearly and brightly over the sombre walls, casting long, weird 
shadows, with occasional bright spots, where the moon shown 
through the windows. A truly grand sight, and one never to 
be forgotten. There I stood, surrounded by deep gullies and 
high hills, made of fallen stone, bricks, iron and mortar, ruin 
and desolation as far as one could see, with here and there a 



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shaft or iron column rising to make the spot where only a 
short time before had stood a fine building, teeming with life 
and prosperity. 

He went to Detroit in Jan., 1889. He was manager of the 
Courier Printing Co. for some time, and in Jan., 1900, became 
the owner. He is a Mason, being a member of Detroit 
Lodge, No. 2 ; also a member of Myrtle Lodge, No. 4, Knights 
of Pythias; Mecca Temple, No. 56, Dramatic Order Knights of 
Khorassan; Fleur de Lis Co., No. 53, Uniform Rank K. of P. 
Has also recently joined the Sons of the American Revolution, 
by right of lineal descent from John Pearl. 

He married, Sept. 3d, 1873, Annie E., daughter of James F. 
and Sarah (Bear) Gettins. She was born Feb. 6. 1854, in 
Pennsylvania. 

CHILDREN. 

1 William Edward (24), b. June 13, 1874. 

2 Jennie Maude (25), b. Dec. 3, 1878. 

3 Ethel, b. May 4, 1886; d. July 16, 1892. 

4 George, b. Feb. 22, 1890; d. July 26, 1890. 



23. WALTER S. HEATH. 

Chicago, 111. 

(14) Rebecca P. (Heath) Heath v, Rebecca (Pearl) Heath iv, John 
iii, Richard ii, John i. 

Born June 16, 1863, in Chicago, 111. ; married in 1883, Mary 
C. Bathman, of Chattanooga, Tenn. She was born May 5, 
1868, at Des Moines, la. Her father was Christopher Bathman, 
who was born July 14, 1840, at Berne, Switzerland, and mar- 
Aug. 30, 1863, Sarah M. Booth, at Utica, N. Y. She was the 
daughter of Stephen and Harriett (Terry) Booth, who were 
married Oct. 28, 1841. Stephen died Apr. 6, 1897. He was a 
cousin of the noted actor, Edwin Booth. 



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CHILDREN. 

1 Chester S., b. Apr. 22. 1884. 

2 Calvert E., b. Sept. 21, 1887. 

3 Florence M., b. June 9, 1890. 

4 Frank W., b. May 26, 1892. 



SEVENTH GENERATION. 

24. WILLIAM E. HEATH. 

Detroit, Mich. 

(22) Wm. C. Healh vi, Rebecca P. (Heath) Heath v. Rebecca 
(Pearl) Heath iv, John Pearl iii, Richard ii, John i. 

Born June 13, 1874; married Feb. 6th, 1895, Florence Com- 
stock. 

\ CHILDREN. 

I Walter George, b. Apr. 2, 1898. 



25. JENNIE M. (HEATH) COLEMAN. 

Belleville, Mich.; Detroit, Mich. 

(22) Wm. C. Heath vi, Rebecca P. (Heath) Heath v, Rebecca 
(Pearl) Heath iv, John Pearl iii, Richard ii. John i. 

Born Dec. 3, 1878; married July 8, 1894, Claude E., son of 
Calvin C. and Sarah E. (Whittaker) Coleman. 

CHILDREN. 

1 Victoria Violet, b. Mar. 9, 1896. 

2 Sumner Heath, b. May 8, 1898. 



